Originally Posted by chrisy:
“I'd have expected them to add that at the same time if they were going to.
Obviously, yes. But why break it up into two separate changes before the "big one". Why not do it all on the same day? Adding POP+1 on 76 when it is going to move in two days and most likely before it starts broadcasting is just weird. Why not hold out for two days and do the mux move combined with the new LCN? TBA on 136 - why add it a week before the changes on the new LCN, when they clearly can't even use the real name?
There's not a single change there (and last week) that couldn't have waited until the 3rd.”
It's presumably two technical changes though - one involving linking many new audio streams into the various multiplexes (and as we have seen one that got cocked up with Smooth going out under the Magic label!) and one that changes a few LCNs and trivial data streams - it also gives confidence in the streams actually working when needed.
As for POP+1 being on 76 before moving to 136 that is weird - going straight on 136 would have made more sense! The CBS Action holding slate is also daft - surely it could have been put on 70 with the MHEG saying "CBBC now on channel 120, CBS Action Coming Soon".
One thing which is rather irritating is that when doing a tune on my Humax I can't tell which the old and new services (they don't show the LCN in the tuning menus) are so I ended up with half the channels from the old COM6 allocations and half on the new COM5 - relabelling the old services "was Magic" or "retune for Magic" like they do on DAB would have been helpful so I could have deleted the junk on the tuning menus!
